Spoke Toolbar for Outlook- How can it help me?

The Spoke Toolbar for Outlook gives you more of that most precious commodity: Time. In today's fast-paced work environment, having more time can mean a range of things from making more money to spending more time with your loved ones. As the largest Open Network for businesspeople, Spoke offers a unique tool to help you save time; the Spoke Toolbar for MS Outlook. Download it now.

Do you receive business-related e-mails that sound interesting, but come from people you don't know and trust? Do you want to know more about these people before you respond or ignore their e-mail?

With the Spoke Toolbar you can easily conduct a quick professional background search for the people with whom you are unfamiliar or would like to know more about. Simply type the name of the person in the Spoke Outlook Toolbar search box and press Enter on your keyboard (see below). Spoke will automatically search for this person and display results in your web-browser. No opening other programs; no logging into tools. Just a fast and easy way to learn more about this person before you engage them. Use the Toolbar to check out who's e-mailing you.

Do you want to quickly review information about people who e-mail you to review their credentials and what's important to them before you respond?

Now you can preview their Spoke profile with the click of a button to examine some one's professional background, their interests, and see what information they've submitted about themselves in Spoke. Simply locate the green "info" button in the top right corner of the Outlook e-mail viewing pain and click on it to see their Spoke profile.

Do you spend a lot of time searching the internet for information about people and companies?

When you're trying to research some one you found online, Spoke offers quick search functionality powered by the Spoke Toolbar which allows you to quickly search Spoke for information on people, companies, and titles without leaving the page you are viewing or having to log into a service to find it. Simply highlight the words you would like to search for, then right click your mouse and select how you want to search Spoke; Person, Company, or Title. Spoke will automatically search for the highlighted information and display the results in your web-browser. Use the Toolbar to research information online.

Do you wish you had a better way to keep up with all your contacts and their contact information in MS Outlook?

Using the Spoke Toolbar you can automatically create and update records for people who e-mail you in your Outlook Contacts folder. To create a record, open the e-mail which you'd like to create a record for. In the bottom right-hand corner you will see a prompt appear asking what you'd like to do. Select the option which best describes your intentions (Create New or Update Existing) and click. From there you will be prompted to save the record with corresponding data or to update an existing record with new data. Data is recognized from the sender's e-mail signature. Use the Toolbar to keep up with your contacts.

Do you maintain a large list of contacts in Outlook of people who e-mail you? Do you wish you had a better way to keep up with all these people?

The Spoke Toolbar for Outlook has several tools which will save you time in keeping your contact's information update to date and usable. Using the Toolbar you can send requests to all your contacts to get the most updated information. All they have to do is reply to your e-mail using an e-mail signature. The Spoke Toolbar takes care of the rest. You can also have the Toolbar remind you when you haven't been in touch with one of your contacts to make sure you don't fall out of good graces with the people who make up your professional network. Use the Toolbar to keep up with your contacts.

Do you need a better way to research your leads in salesforce.com and to fill out any missing contact information?

The Spoke Toolbar for Outlook is a critical part of the integration with leading sales force automation systems (SFA's) like salesforce.com. While the Toolbar is not required to export standard information to an SFA, it will provide visual indicators to make it easy for you to research people and companies from contact and lead records. Simply click on the green logo next to any available person or company and Spoke will display information about that person or company in your web-browser. Start researching your leads now!